Photographing means a lot to me. For the past five or six decades, I have been exploring the human and geographical boundaries of the world around me. I photograph, which means that I am on a quest. Through the daily life of my contemporaries that I visit, I try to reveal their uncertainties and the hidden connections between them, themselves and their environment.
It is the Β« in between" that interests me; the fault that is also a passage, the interval, the gap where the light transits. The thread that links, despite everything, life and death, old age and the future, the exile and his roots, reason and illness, the jinx and the horizon, the hope of living together and the harshness of the city.
To do this, I need time, so I wander around, as long as it takes; I allow myself to be completely open and surprised so as to capture fragments of it. These images are then linked to my photographic stories. The dramaturgy I use underlines the moral strength and the capacity of resilience of the people and the situations I photograph.
They act, they do not give up existing, they are facing the situations. I consider each new project as an element of a long-term research. When I am engaged in a work, I am engaged in the poetic and political process of the work. Photography to me means, illuminating the intimate to try and express the universal.
I present my work through books, exhibitions. I was born on January 17th, At the age of four, I received a Polaroid camera as a gift. The photographic process never ceases to fascinate me. There is this magic at the crossroads of technical excellence and the mystery of restitution that amazes me every time.
